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HERMES
But how smooth and slippery you are, Riches, how hard to hold and how quick to get away! You offer people no secure grip at all, but make your escape through their fingers in some way or other, like an eel or a snake. Poverty, on the other hand, is sticky and easy to grip, and has no end of hooks growing out all over her body, so that when people come near her she lays hold of them at once and cannot be disengaged easily. But in the midst of our gossip we have forgotten something rather important.RICHES
What is it?HERMES
We have not brought along Treasure, whom we needed most.Timon. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.
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